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> Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 18:32:39 +0100
> From: leader@debian.org > To: debian-cloud@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Debian on Azure - vmdepot > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 03:19:10PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > So, here is (in the attached screenshot) what I had in mind when asking > > the above question. What you see in the screenshot is the first "virtual > > machine operating system selection" dialog that I'm shown when > > clicking on creating new virtual machine in the Azure portal. > > > > You can see there various GNU/Linux distros, including "community" > > distros, but not Debian. > > > > So let me refine my initial question: why Debian is not there? :-) and > > how do we get Debian into that list? > > Ping? The difference is that the Azure team formally test those images, and as Pierre pointed, VM Depot images are tested by the community. However, to make it easier for people to deploy without node and the deployment scripts, the functionality has been added to the portal [1] Hopefully this is a good balance between clarifying the difference and making it easier to deploy community images such as Debian testing. bureado |